different between classification vs storage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

• classification scheme
• classification yard

Related terms

• class
• classic
• classify
• category
• categorize
• segment

Translations

Further reading

• classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

1. classification

Further reading

• “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From store +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st??.??d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st?.??d??/
• Rhymes: -????d?

Noun

storage (usually uncountable, plural storages)

1. (uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

   There's a lot of storage space in the loft.

2. (usually countable) An object or place in which something is stored.
   • 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 115,

     Underground natural gas storages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas storages worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas storages, salt-cave gas storages and aquifer storages.

   • 2012, A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective, C. A. Brebbia, Water Pollution XI, page 187,

     Low impact storages included the northern and southern region?s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted storages included central region?s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central storages where^[sic] more than double compared to northern and southern storages (Fig. 2A).

3. (usually uncountable, computer hardware) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.

   I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.

   • 2007, Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology, Firewall Media, India, page 43,

     Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.

4. (uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.

Usage notes

The plural form appears to be more common in Australian English.

Hyponyms

• (computing): cloud storage, digital storage

Derived terms

• (computing): client-side-storage, server-side-storage
• warm storage

Translations

Verb

storage (third-person singular simple present storages, present participle storaging, simple past and past participle storaged)

1. To put into storage; to store.

Anagrams

• Argotes, OR gates, ergosta, garotes, orgeats, toe rags, toerags